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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 16, 2025 | Phillips | New York | Modern & Contemporary Art | 29 | $****** - ****** | The Irish Troubles |
paintings
182.3 x 91.1 cm (71.75 x 35.88 in)
acrylic and pasted cardboard on canvas mounted on board
signed with the artist"s initials and dated “RM 81” upper left; signed, titled and dated \\\"THE IRISH TROUBLES\\\" R. Motherwell 1981\\\" on the reverse
Collection of the Artist
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr. \u0026 Olive McCollum Jenney, Houston (acquired from the above in 1985)
Olive McCollum Jenney, Houston (by descent from the above in 1987)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Provincetown, Long Point Gallery, emRobert Motherwell: Tribute to James Joyce,/em May 27-August 20, 1983
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, emRobert Motherwell/em, October 1, 1983-February 3, 1985, no. 88, pp. 120, 129 (illustrated, p. 120)
“Motherwell Pays Tribute to Joyce,” emAdvocate Summer Guide,/em June 16, 1983, p. 3
Debbie Forman, “Motherwell Draws on Irish Author,” emCape Cod Times,/em June 14, 1983, p. 13 (illustrated)
Michael Hayes, “Spotlight on Motherwell,” emDiversion Vacation Planner,/em March-April 1984, p. 44
Phil Inje, “Robert Motherwell: Another View,” emWestArt 22,/em no. 16, May 11, 1984, p. 13
Charles Shere, “Motherwell: A Postwar Painter Who Stands Apart,” emOakland Tribune,/em April 22, 1984, p. 4
emBritish \u0026 American Art, The Uneasy Dialectic/em, London, 1987, p. 38 (illustrated)
Marcelin Pleynet, emRobert Motherwell,/em Paris, 1989, pp. 174, 238 (illustrated, p. 174)
emRobert Motherwell: Peintures et collages, 1969-1990,/em exh. cat., Artcurial Centre d"Art Plastique Contemporain, Paris, 1990, p. 40
Charles Sullivan, ed., emIreland in Poetry: With Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Art,/em New York, 1990, p. 181 (illustrated)
Stephen Polcari, emAbstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience,/em Cambridge, 1991, p. 308
Andreas Franzke, “Uber Robert Motherwell: Ausgleich von Gegensatzen,” emKunstler: Kritische Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst,/em no. 25, 1994, fig. 15, pp. 13 (illustrated)
Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes, emJoyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce,/em Dublin, 2004, p. 151
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., emRobert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Three, Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard,/em New Haven, 2012, no. C669, p. 311 (illustrated)
emRobert Motherwell: The Art of Collage,/em exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2016, p. 17
Robert Motherwell
The Irish Troubles
71 3/4 x 35 7/8 in. (182.2 x 91.1 cm)
signed with the artist"s initials and dated “RM 81” upper left; signed, titled and dated \\\"THE IRISH TROUBLES\\\" R. Motherwell 1981\\\" on the reverse
acrylic and pasted cardboard on canvas mounted on board
Executed in 1977-1981, in the United States.
